Burial Appreciation Thread

Like I said earlier, I also find Burial puts a lot more emotion into each tune than others in his genre. In fact, it almost depresses me. It's a real feat to put a true sense of emotion in a genre often frowned upon for being cold, sterile, and lifeless.

Edited by DisgruntledPorcupine - March 30 2013 at 17:46

jude111 wrote: A Person wrote:  I hope he makes an entirely ambient album some day.  I know what you mean. He's made some phenomenal ambient pieces, particularly from his first two albums: Night Bus, Forgive, Endorphin, In McDonalds, Dog Shelter and UK. In fact, Forgive features a sample of Brian Eno's An Ending (Ascent), so clearly Burial's a fan of at least some ambient music. Over the years, I tried to think of what one major thing separates Burial from every other EDM artist, whether it's dubstep musicians or anything else. And what I've come up with is this: his rhythms never lock into a groove. Whereas every other EDM artist that I know pretty much puts their percussion sounds on a loop, with Burial it's always changing, always restless. I've paid close attention to his drum sounds, and I'm amazed that he never seems to loop it. He must spend a great amount of time working every bar of every piece. In that respect, then, I see his music as already being ambient in some sense. I know he came out of dubstep and was influenced by garage, but I see his music as transcending those genres and appealing to people with interests in neither.

From what I've read, he manually does everything by hand in SoundForge to give the music a more human quality.

Edited by jude111 - March 31 2013 at 07:57

I only have Untrue, but man is that a killer album. I think I'll be exploring his other stuff sometime soon

bytor2112 wrote: I only have Untrue, but man is that a killer album. I think I'll be exploring his other stuff sometime soon

It's winter again, which must mean: New Burial's bound to appear!

1. Four Tet hosted an 8-hour marathon on Rinse FM last week, during which he debuted an unreleased Burial collaboration, which is now on Youtube: http://pitchfork.com/news/52566-listen-four-tet-shares-an-unreleased-burial-collaboration/

2. Four Tet has a new album out, entitled Beautiful Rewind. It's quite a departure from his earlier work, and while it may not (or may) be a masterpiece, there's several amazing tracks, including Buchla, Aerial (my favorite), Parallel Jalebi, Kool FM, and most importantly for our purposes, the track Gong, which sounds to my ears like a definite Burial collaboration. So far there's no word whether Burial's on this track or not, but I've searched the internet and I'm definitely not the only person out there who hears Burial in this track. It can be heard here on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiv2ZR4TZk

Burial's been known to seek anonymity in his collaborations. Examples include the track by "Dusk + Blackdown + ," called High Road (The mystery guest is widely known to be Burial.) There's also a suspicion that Burial worked with Kryptic Minds on their first dubstep CD, One of Us. (In an interview at the time, the Kryptic Minds duo talked about working closely with Burial. The interview can be found here: http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2009/05/kryptic-minds-and-loefah.html)

So what do you think, is Gong a Burial collab?

[While I'm on the subject, some of my favorite Four Tet tracks that don't include Burial: Smile Around the Face, Love Cry, Hands, Pyramid.]


Edited by jude111 - October 13 2013 at 08:08

oh god yes oh god yes OH GOD YESSSSSSSS

Horizons wrote: Quite happy, i would complain about not releasing another LP, but then we would wait 2 years for just as much material so - i'm good. :D Curious to see what he'll do here.

I only hope he has a treasure trove of material that he's not released, that will one day see the light of day. (There are a bunch of tracks that received airplay but have not been released; it's also known that he has collaborated with many artists, but has not allowed that material to be released.) In an old interview, he mentioned making an album after his first one, but discarding it because he thought it was too depressing, and quickly making Untrue and releasing that instead. There was a 2 track EP that was slated for release in 2008 (Hyperdub's website had a date of release for it: Feral Witchchild/Stairwell, I believe, which have turned up in pirated excerpts), but Burial changed his mind.

The thing that gets me is how quicly Untrue was made, while everything else he's made seems to have taken quite some time to put together. I know we don't like it when artists repeat themselves, and usually I agree, but in this case, Burial could've kept making Untrue-type albums and I'd be deleriously giddy. Still, I love everything he's done.



Edited by jude111 - December 02 2013 at 10:32

Idk, I probably prefer his EPs to his LPs. I mean, s/t and Untrue are amazing, but Kindred and Truant/Rough Sleeper (haven't listened to others) are something else.

Edited by jude111 - December 11 2013 at 16:26